Beltlike cartridge-carrier for machine-guns.



F. H. FRISSELL.

BELTLIKE CARTRIDGE CARRIER FOR MACHINE GUNS,

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 10, 1915.

Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK H. FRISSELL, OF MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE RUSSELL- MFG. 00., F MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

BELTLIKE CARTRIDGE-CARRIER FOR MACHINE-GUNS.

Specification of Letters Batent.

Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

Continuation in part of application Serial No. 20,816, filed April 12, 1915. This application filed August To all whom it may concern.

citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Middletown, in the county-of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Beltlike Cartridge-Carriers for Machine-Guns; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of -reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in

Figure 1 a plan View of a section of a machine-gun, belt-like cartridge-carrier made in accordance with my invention and shown as filled with cartridges. Fig. 2 an edge view thereof looking at the bullet ends of the cartridges. Fig. 3 a diagrammatic view showing the principle on which my improved belt-like cartridge-carrier is woven, the warp threads being actually crossed at regularly spaced intervals determined in length by the size of the cartridge-receiving pockets, and the weft threads being alternately interwoven with the warp threads as the same respectively appear upon the opposite sides of the belt-like fabric which is twofold or double in its character although integral in physical structure.

Myinvention relates to an improvement in woven, belt-like cartridge-carriers for machine-guns. As heretofore made, such carriers have consisted, in effect, of two independently woven strips of narrow fabric placed side by side, and, to use the weavers term, stitched together at regular intervals for the production of cartridge-pockets by the localized lateral interlacing of the warp and weft threads during the Weaving of the strips face to face. Cartridge-carriers so made, have been found objectionable because, on account of the severity of their usage in machine-guns, the stitching breaks down and permits the cartridges to run together and foul the mechanism of the gun which is thus put out of commission, and also because the production of the cartridge-pockets by stitching does not permit of securing that degree of uniformity as to their size which is demanded for the best results with the belts in feeding the cartridges.

10, 1915., Serial No. 44,795.

The object of my invention is to so reinforce the ends of the cartridge-pockets that it is impossible to break down the pockets without destroying the fabric, and to insure uniformity in the size of the pockets.

-With these ends in view, my invention consists, broadly, in' a woven belt-like machine-gun cartridge-carrier having two sets of warp threads crossing each other at regularly spaced intervals so as to alternately appear upon the opposite sides of the fabric and produce a series of cartridge-pockets reinforced by the crossing of the said warp threads, and one or more weft threads interwoven with the said warp threads.

' My invention further consists in certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

According to my present view, the preferred way of carrying out my invention is to set up a suitable loom with two sets of warp threads 2 and 3 and two weft threads 4 and 5. The mechanism of the loom is arranged so that at regularly spaced intervals the respective sets of warp threads will entirely cross each other and actually change sides, as shown in Fig. 3, so as to appear and reappear upon the respective faces of the fabric. The weft threads 4 and 5 do not cross each other but are alternately interwoven with the alternating sections of the warp threads as the same change sides by crossing at regular intervals. This results in the production of a belt-like fabric containing a longitudinal series of cartridgereceiving pockets 6 reinforced at their ends and therefore between the adjacent cartridges 7 by the crossing of the warp threads in such a manner that the pockets cannot be broken down Without destroying the fabric. Furthermore, the" crossing of the warp threads at regular intervals nables the cartridge-pockets to be produ d with a far greater degree of accuracy than when the warp threads and weft threads are locally interlaced in the old way to form the cartridgepockets. In other words, after a predetermined number of picks, the warp-threads are crossed so that the pockets are marked ofl", as it were, with absolute accuracy.

As herein shown, and preferably, the outer edges of the strips of fabric are reinforced by specialwarp threads 8 of hard wound linen or cotton so as to increase the iardness of the edges and endow them with a tendency to stand'apart rather than hug each other, whereby the insertion of the cartridges into the pocketsis facilitated.

. The crux of my invention is the actual crossing of the warp threads at regularly spaced intervals so thatv they will alternately againihe might set up the loom to employ two weft threads without alternately interweaving them with the respective sets of warp threads.

This case is a continuation of my application filed'April 12, 1915, Serial No. 20,816.-

1. As a. new article of manufacture, a woven belt-like machine-gun cartridge-carrier having two sets of warp threads crossso as to alternately appear upon the opposite sides of the fabric and produce aseries of cartridge-pockets reinforced by the cross ing of the said warp threads, and weft threads interwoven with the said warp threads.

2. Asa new article of manufacture, a woven belt-like machine-gun cartridge-car- Gopies of this "patent may'be obtained for mg each other at regularly spaced intervals rier having two sets of warpwthreads crossing each other at regularly'spaced intervals so as to alternately appear upon opposite sides of the fabric and produce a series cartridge-pockets reinforced by the crossing of the said warp threads, weft threads interwoven with the said warp threads, and supplemental warp threads reinforcing the edges of the fabric to stifien them and prevent them from hugging together.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a woven belt-like machine-gun cartridge-carrier consisting of two sets of warp threads crossing each other at regularly spaced intervals so as to alternately-appear upon the opposite sides of the fabric, and 'of weft threads alternately interwoven 'with' the respective sets of warp threads but not changing sides therewith A 4:. As a new article of manufacture, a woven belt-like machine-gun cartridge-carrier consisting of two sets of warp threads crossing each other at regularly spaced intervals and thusalternately appearing upon opposite sides of the fabric, and of two weft threads alternately interwoven with the respective sets of warp threads but not changing sides therewith, the outer edges of the fabric being stiflened by special warp threads to prevent them from'hugging together.

FRANK -H. FRISSELL.

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Washington, D. G. 

